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A New Jersey state senator has introduced a bill that would legalize and tax marijuana to fund women's health programs, the Transportation Trust Fund, and other areas of the state budget slashed by Governor Chris Christie. According to two recent polls, recreational marijuana use enjoys the same approval rating as the governor: 41% of respondents approve of both. [ more › ]

Big win for pro-lifers, cutting off access to medical care in Texas: The number of claims filed for medical and family planning services in the new state-run Texas Women’s Health Program has dropped since the state ousted Planned Parenthood from it and set up its own program without federal financing, according to figures from the [Read more...]
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After Gov. Chris Christie (R) slashed $7.5 million from women’s health programs in 2010 — mainly to prevent the money from going to Planned Parenthood — several health clinics in the state were forced to close. Now, New Jersey lawmakers are pushing to restore state funding for those family planning clinics, pointing out that many [...]

For more than a year, Texas lawmakers have been on a crusade against Planned Parenthood that has resulted in deep cuts to family planning services that thousands of women rely on. But, particularly after the state’s health department projected a sharp rise in unintended births as a direct result of the budget cuts, Texas Republicans [...]

In the past two years, Texas legislators slashed funds for family planning and passed up $30 million a year in federal Medicaid money, largely to squeeze Planned Parenthood out of the state's women's health programs. Last week, hundreds...Show More Summary

Our guest blogger is Lindsay Rosenthal, a Research Assistant for Health Policy and Women’s Health and Rights at the Center for American Progress. The 20 point gender gap in the 2012 election was the largest since Gallup poll began tracking in 1952 — the Obama-Biden ticket beat the Romney-Ryan ticket by a large margin with [...]

Texas officials were so insistent on defunding Planned Parenthood, they dismantled the state’s federally-funded Women’s Health Program — a network of doctors that provide care for low-income women — so they could relaunch a new program excluding the national organization. But targeting Planned Parenthood comes at a steep price for the women seeking preventative care [...]

(CNN) - Planned Parenthood in Texas heads to federal court Friday, looking for a temporary injunction that would allow it to take part in the state's revamped Women's Health Program. Late last month, a Texas judge denied the group's request for a temporary restraining order that would have extended the organization's ability to participate. FULL [...]

When Texas intentionally dismantled its women’s health program by refusing to fund Planned Parenthood — the largest women’s health group in the country — the state was essentially telling poor women they would need to find new doctors. Thousands of Texan women are now searching for a new provider, but the state is doing a [...]

On January 1st, Texas launched its revamped Women's Health Program. By revamped, we mean that the state-run system that is supposed to service Texas's 100,000 low-income women no longer includes satanic abortionplex Planned Parenthood,...Show More Summary

After anti-choice Texas officials spent most of 2012 attempting to defund their state’s Planned Parenthood clinics, they finally succeeded. On January 1, Texas launched its new state-run Women’s Health Program — a network of health care organizations that provide preventative care and family planning to low-income women — without Planned Parenthood. Since the national women’s [...]

A Texas state judge has delivered a ruling in response to the second legal challenge Planned Parenthood has brought against the state for removing the abortion business from its taxpayer-funded women’s health program. The judge refused today to grant a temporary restraining order allowing Planned Parenthood to rejoin the Texas Women’s Health Program in time [...]

This morning, U.S. District Judge Walter Smith, Jr. denied Texas’ request to prevent the Health and Human Services Department from cutting off funding for the Texas Women’s Health Program (WHP). The Associated Press reports that without the state’s request for a preliminary injunction, Medicaid funding for the WHP will likely expire on December 31st. [ more › ]

On Thursday, in a letter to the Third Court of Appeals, Planned Parenthood admitted that they have been charging women for services that should be free under the Women’s Health Program (WHP), which serves low-income Texan women. Providers enrolled in the program are reimbursed by the federal government. The letter states, “Pending a ruling on [...]

The state of Texas announced this afternoon that it will continue funding the Planned Parenthood abortion business through its women’s health program until it can verify it has enough alternatives to meet the non-abortion health needs of women in the state. Health and Human Service Commissioner Kyle Janek said Wednesday the state needs more time [...]